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Recent Examples of scenarist
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
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Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Director-screenwriter Bertino knows his way around the horror genre, having made such notable efforts as The Strangers (the 2008 original, not the awful 2024 reboot) and The Dark and the Wicked.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
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Glassriver is currently working on the first book in the Elma series, The Creak on the Stairs, which is being adapted by screenwriter and series showrunner Karen Björg Eyfjörð Þorsteinsdóttir.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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In 1963, French writer, playwright, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau dies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Oct. 2025
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Keaton also starred as a playwright/mother who becomes involved with a nefarious womanizer (Jack Nicholson) in Something’s Gotta Give (2003), good for her fourth best actress Oscar nomination.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Oct. 2025
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When Entertainment Weekly asked the showrunner/executive producer/writer/director about a potential season 3 during a press conference on Thursday, Gunn explained the cliffhanger ending will actually have an impact on future DCU projects instead of another season of Peacemaker.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Butchard, the creator, serves as lead writer, with Robbie O’Neill writing a further episode.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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Insulin is expensive—a package of insulin pens, which may last a month, might be $25.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Prep your space first - Before the puppy walks through the door, set up a crate, exercise pen and gates.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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